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Well, NO, it is climate alarmism that has already increased our insurance rates by use of their scam computer models for setting rates instead of actual facts. For years, property insurance rates were based on solid fact, the record of past losses. Some years ago, the insurance companies conned North Carolina to let them use computer models instead. Computer models are digital alchemy where whoever sets them up can get whatever result they want by the way they design their model. This is a very crooked system that vastly overcharges eastern North Carolina. Since this scam was launched, losses have continued to follow the historical pattern, but the insurance cokmpanies are still allowed to overcharge us based on that fake computer model scheme. Climate alarmism is their excuse for using the crooked computer models.

Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 8:31 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

And now?

Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 6:25 pm By: Big Bob

Climate change will increase all our insurance rates.
Duh

Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 10:02 pm By: Big Bob

All of this Democrat bungling on the Los Angeles wildfires is going to hit all of us.

Take insurance. All insurance companies buy "reinsurance" to back them up on major losses from companies like Swiss Re. These reinsurance companies are going to get soaked in Los Angeles, and will raise their rates to the insurance companies we buy from in North Carolina. That will raise our premiums. The companies with heavy direct exposure to Los Angeles will also probably try to increase their rates in other states to cover their Los Angeles losses.

THen consider all of the mortgages on houses that have gone up in smoke. THey are not likely to be paid and the collateral is now greatly reduced, being now only the land. Some already shaky financial insitutions with a lot of Los Angeles mortgage expsoure may go under from this and that may set up a chain reaction with other financial institutions.

Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 8:22 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

An illegal alien tries to burn down their city, and the nitwit Democrats in LA won't cooperate on deporting him from their sancuary city? That's an outrage. It is a good thing that new Border Czar Tom Homan will be on the job in a week, and is not afraid to enforce the federal criminal law that makes it a felony to harbor illegal aliens. He has said he is not afraid to start sending liberal politicians to jail if they defy that law. America needs what Tom Homan is bringing. Lock them up.

Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 5:56 pm By: borderhawk

I think its a truism.
When words are spoken, everyone hears what is said a bit differently. Some hear it a LOT differently. At the Jan 6 Commissioners meeting, I heard Hood plead for just a bit of oversight regarding $$ the school system spent on parts of th curriculum.
As good stewards of th taxpayers $$ it seemed fair to Hood that the commissioners know some facts regarding some of the local curriculum that WeThePpl had paid for. Mind u, he was Not asking to take control of how the schools are spending that $$, just bit of oversight... just a bit of dutiful service for the citizens so that we could all be informed. (He had the same concerns about the Sheriff's Dept.)

Then I heard 4 of the Commissioners take a position as if they were Sgt Shultz: "I know nothing," & I'm happy w knowing NOTHING. They had stuck their head in the sand & showed no desire to be good stewards of the taxpayers $$ with which they had been entrusted. A complete abrogation of duty. So disappointing.

Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 4:48 pm By: Washingtonian

Not Rudi and the Kraken?

Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 4:31 pm By: Big Bob

Thank-you Commissioner Richardson for bringing to specific light how Beaufort County governs employing the consensus of those that "go along to get along," and pure common sense be damned; damned by those in the control of one special interest or another as they plan their various group-think movements ... the deliberate and the well orchestrated foolhardy controlling affairs of the Center - Left Coalition; now membered by just 2 Democratic Socialists and 2 RINOs.

Thank God for elections every two years, and the next election for county commissioner cannot come soon enough. We, the self-governed, deserve so much better.

I advise every concerned citizen that knows the infamous fact that government spending, for what government offers the public, is far out of control, and to PLEASE Make This Stand NOW. Our sense of forever tomorrows may be too late.

Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 1:22 pm By: Stan Deatherage

When I see the way Democrats govern, I am more inclined to think a mix of Stalin and Bozo the Clown.

Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 12:10 pm By: Rino Hunter

One can hardly call themselves a corruption fighter who is willing to ignore half the corruption.

The name for those people is political hack.

Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 11:49 am By: Big Bob

It appears the California Democrats see Trump as the emergency instead of the wildfires.

Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 11:15 am By: Van Zant